Chocolate krantz cakes

Name: Chocolate krantz cakes
Yield: Makes 2 loaf cakes
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 3 large free-range eggs; grated zest of 1 small lemon; ⅓ tsp salt; 120 ml water; sunflower oil, for greasing; 150 g unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into 2 cm cubes; 30 g best-quality cocoa powder; 50 g icing sugar; 530 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 2 tsp fast-action dried yeast; 100 g caster sugar; 100 g pecans, roughly chopped; 2 tbsp caster sugar; 130 g good-quality dark chocolate, melted; 120 g unsalted butter, melted; 260 g caster sugar; 160 ml water

Preparation info

Makes
2
loaf cakes

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Jerusalem

By Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Published 2012

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